For Hakka people all over the world, pure Hakka dialect is based on Meixian dialect. This is universally acknowledged, so in Meizhou, the broadcasting of Hakka by TV and radio stations has become a major feature of Meizhou Radio and Television Station, and Hakka has also become an important "emotional bond" for Meizhou to maintain Hakka people in the world. Many overseas Hakkas who have left their homeland for many years are proud that their local accent has not changed. There are also many people who return home to visit relatives and seek their roots, such as former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

Hakka dialect is the most prominent symbol of Hakka culture in Meizhou and the mother tongue of Hakka people. According to experts' research, there were many written expressions in Hakka dialects in Tang and Song Dynasties, which preserved a large number of ancient Chinese phonology in Tang and Song Dynasties. Moreover, there are many similarities between today's Hakka dialect and standard Mandarin (about 40% of the four or five thousand words commonly used in Chinese characters are not very different from Hakka dialect in pronunciation). As the ancestors of Hakkas are the gentry of the Central Plains, when they entered the mountainous area at the junction of Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangdong with this superior language and advanced Central Plains culture, they had an important influence on the local language. Therefore, Hakka dialect can be said to be a language dominated by Chinese and supplemented by Baiyue dialect in the Tang and Song Dynasties.